Voluntary Collection

Che Guevara / Builder
ERNESTO GUEVARA Known as CHE GUEVARA Latin American guerrilla leader and revolutionary theorist. Relaxing after a voluntary working Sunday. *UNAVAILABLE FOR USE IN ASIA AT PRESENT*

Suffragette selling badges Date: circa 1910s

London & South Western Railway Servants Orphanage, Woking
General view of the main building of the London & South Western Railway Servants Orphanage at Woking, Surrey. The orphanage was founded in 1885 in Clapham, south west London

George Beaumont with manual fire engine, Pinner
George Beaumont, Chief Officer of the Pinner Voluntary Fire Brigade, with a manual fire engine which was kept at Waxwell Lane, Pinner, having previously been housed at The Hall

Barnet Voluntary Fire Brigade with manual horse pump
The officers and firemen of the Barnet voluntary fire brigade with the manual horse drawn pump fire engine

Advert for recruiting women for the WaF 1941
You ought to be driving in the WaF. Recruitment of women for The Womens Auxiliary Air Force. Conscription of women did not begin until 1941

Poster advertising the Special Constabulary, seeking fit men and women for part-time voluntary service. Civil Defence is Common Sense. Ask for details at your local police station. 1940s

Red Cross Poster - World War I
Poster asking for donations to the British Red Cross during World War I, stressing urgently that six pounds a minute is required to maintain the number of motor ambulances, hospital ships

Daily lives in London during the Blitz
Four images relating to air-raided London in October 1940. Top left shows cast members at the Windmill Theatre which was the only theatre to remain open; the cast slept in the theatre on mattresses

Mobile Canteens
A row of mobile canteens in Brighton. Note that one of the vans has Y.M.C.A. printed on it. 1940

Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association
Notice, Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, Victoria House, Victoria Street, Westminster, London SW. Free supplies of water for man and beast in the streets of London. 1887

RMS Titanic, photograph, Captain Edward John Smith
RMS TITANIC, Period oversize photograph showing Titanic's Captain Edward John Smith on board the Olympic with rare note The accompanying photograph of Captain Smith is provided by the voluntary

WW2 - The Girls Of Today, W. V. S. Restaurant
A WW2 children's book illustration from The Girls Of Today. The image shows a a family walking into a Women's Voluntary Service run restaurant. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 - Gracie And The W. V. S
A WW2 children's illustrated Gracie doll card, equipped with a wartime Women's Voluntary Service uniform. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Birthday Card, Initials
A WW2 birthday greetings card with a focus on initials, some of which represent wartime services including the Royal Air Force, Auxiliary territorial service, National Fire Service

WW2 W. V. S. Salvage
This illustration shows a man speaking to a salvage officer working for the Women's Voluntary Service during WW2, with a large container of items to be recycled for better use. Date: circa 1941

The Continuing Balkans Crisis, Bulgaria
Images of the Balkans Crisis from Rustchuk, Bulgaria. We see the Quay of the town (top), and the departure of Bulgarian volunteers lined up, ready to go to the Turkish Frontier (Bottom)

Lady Alexandra Haig (1907-1997), daughter of Field Marshal Earl Haig, on duty with the Voluntary Aid Detatchment (VAD). Date: 1940

H. R. H. The Duchess of Kent
The Duchess of Kent (1906-1968) formerly Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, here helping out at her local hospital. During World War II she would train as a nurse under the pseudonym Sister Kay

Dornier Do 28A-1 G-ASUR (msn 3051) at Exeter Airport in June 1066, in company with Slingsby Sedbergh TX1 XN157 (msn 1161) of an Air Cadet Voluntary Gliding School. Date: 1968

Mrs Robert Hudson wife of Minister of Agriculture and member of the Women's Voluntary Service, in East End, London. Giving out hundreds of articles of clothing

Advert for Burberry women's equipment WWII
During the Second World War Burberry supplied the British Army with a range of military clothing and accessories. Advertisement for a range of Auxiliary Service equipment for women Date: 1941

Lord Beaverbrook's appeal for aluminium 1940
Lord Beaverbrook the Minister for Aircraft Production appealed for objects wholly or partly made of aluminium for the manufacture of aeroplanes

Lord Beaverbrook the Minister for Aircraft Production appealed for objects wholly or partly made of aluminium for the manufacture of aeroplanes

Advert for Metropolitan Drinking Fountain 1878
Metropolitan drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association, set up in London by Samuel Gurney, a Member of Parliament and philanthropist to supported by voluntary contributions

The Vulgarity of Voluntarism 1914
An illustration of the evil effects of the vulgarity of voluntarism referred to by our contributor. Lord Kitchener is represented by a German cartoon as compelled to recruit Suffragettes in place of

W. V. S. Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven
A W.V.S. (Womens Voluntary Service) Worker demonstrating how to build an emergency oven out of bricks, a piece of metal plate and a broken piece of drainpipe. Date: circa 1941

Women painting kerbside for blackouts, September 1939
Women of the Voluntary Ambulance Service painting the kerbside between their headquarters and the first-aid post to allow them to find their way in a blackout. Date: 1939

First voluntary ambulance service 1939
The first voluntary ambulance service, " All India", photographed soon after its formation in London by Indian doctors and medical students. The volunteers wear helmets and carry gas masks

Uniformed female workers in British war services, April 1941
A selection of women involved in British war services including the Womens Royal Naval Services, the Womens Auxiliary Territorials Service, the Red Cross, the Womens Auxiliary Air Force

Lady Sclater and volunteers, War Workroom Fund, doing useful work for hospitals at home and abroad during the First World War. circa 1917

Making sacks and warm clothes for the troops, WW1
Women making sacks and warm clothes for the troops in a YMCA hut during the First World War. 1914-1918

Metropolitan drinking Fountain and cattle trough association, set up in London by Samuel Gurney, a Member of Parliament, and philanthropist to supported by voluntary contributions

Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses at military hospital
Large group of Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses outside military hospital. A man in military uniform stands at far left and another in central row next to doctors and chaplain

Nurses, doctor, orderlies and domestic staff
Group of nurses, orderlies and doctor in grounds of hospital. Central row sit in deckchairs. A Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse stands in back row. Date: 1914-1918

Group on rear verandah, Quex Park
Group of patients and one nurse on the rear verandah, overlooking the gardens, Quex Park. This verandah ran along the back of the Museum buildings and was used as a sheltered outdoor space in summer

Dreadnought Hospital ship at Greenwich 1870
In 1870 the patients were transferred ashore to the infirmary. which was renamed the Dreadnought Seamens Hospital. HMS Dreadnought herself remained in use as an isolation hospital until she was

BROTHER OF FREE SPIRIT
A BROTHER OF THE FREE SPIRIT - also known as the Voluntary Poor, Beghards and other names Date: 14th century

Symbolic cutting of pigtails in Shanghai, China
At Shanghai, 500 young men voluntarily relinquish their traditional pigtails, symbolising the new spirit of China. Date: 1911

WW2 poster, Women wanted as ambulance drivers
WW2 recruitment poster, Women wanted as ambulance drivers. Offer your services to your local council or any branch of Womens Voluntary Services. Date: early 1940s

WW2 VAD Mini Mouse Walt Disney Cartoon Card
World War 2 VAD Mini Mouse Walt Disney Cartoon Card, World War 2 Walt Disney Postcard, Minnie Mouse - VAD, . Showing support for the Voluntary Aid Detachment Date: 1940s

Elizabeth Asquith at work
Elizabeth Charlotte Lucy Asquith (1897-1945), later Princess Bibesco, English writer, daughter of British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and his second wife, Margot

WW1 Red Cross and St. John's Ambulance Brigade Voluntary Aid Detachment volunteers with refreshments at a rai

A Mound of Aluminium, July 1940
In response to the appeal for aluminium from Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, families hand in their spare pots and pans to aid the war effort. 1940

Inns of Court OTC advertisement, WW1
Text advertisement encouraging men to join the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps, also known as The Devils Own. Commissions were available for public school and university educated men

VAD girl, WW1
A cartoon drawing a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse, showing her made up of the three letters forming her name and carrying a tray. Date: 1918

Womens Voluntary Service (WVS) canteen van, WW2
Women from the WVS providing refreshments to National Fire Service London firefighters. The canteen van was presented to the London Region by the township of Inchfawn Bar Harbour, USA

Female Harrods Employees in War-time Uniform, 1940
Photograph showing nine female employees of Harrods in their war-time uniforms, each woman working for a different service. From left to right: Womans Land Army, Womens Voluntary Services, St

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